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Shared Sisterhood
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Shared Sisterhood

by Tina Opie, Beth A. Livingston
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 19m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Preface

In March 2019, celebrated novelist Kim McLarin asked a poignant question in the Washington Post: “Can Black women and White women be true friends?” She writes: “This is what Black women know: When push comes to shove, White women choose race over gender: Every. Single. Time.”1

This racial divide is not new, nor is it specific to friendship or constrained to relationships between Black and White women only. The continued growth in workforce racioethnic diversity globally makes connections across differences more important than ever before. But, as McLarin notes, if White women—or women from historically power-dominant groups—are more likely to build connections based not on shared gender but on shared racioethnicity, then it makes it ...

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ISBN: 9781647822842